I think I've lost my marbles!

We've had a crazy few days here, but that's nothing new.  Appropriately, it started on Friday, April 1st (April Fool's Day).  Joey is a jokester and is always "pranking" me and is always begging me to be pranked.  He loves a good joke and lives to scheme about the next way he's going to "get" someone.

So... God decided to play a little prank on most of us in the state of Maine and that was what started all of this craziness.  On Friday morning, I awoke to my phone ringing stating that school was cancelled due to inclement weather.  In other words, we were going to get a huge, honking snowstorm.  When all was said and done, ended up getting 12 inches of snow.  This is unusual to say the least even for this part of the country.  I let both kids sleep until about 8 a.m. and then I woke them both up saying that they had to get up as we'd overslept and it was way past time to go to school.  I got them up and dressed in a hurry and then said, "April Fool's!"  Joey thought it was great!  He laughed and laughed and couldn't believed I'd pranked him.  Then, I realized that I'd started something.  When was he going to prank me?

At about 10 a.m., he came running downstairs and he said, "Mom, please don't be mad at me." I thought for sure this was the prank.  I calmly said, "What's wrong, sweetheart?" and he said, "I swallowed the marble from my mousetrap game."  Playing along, I said, "Oh no, we need to go to the doctor.  I think you'll have to have an operation."  At this point, when I was expecting to hear, "April Fool's", Joey burst into tears.  Uh oh!!  I looked at him and said, "You're not pranking me are you?" and through tears he said, "No, I really did swallow the marble from my Mousetrap game.  I was laying on the floor and I put it in my mouth and when I stood up I just sort of swallowed it."  I calmly said, "I think you're fine, but let me call the doctor just to be sure."

So, I called the doctor's office and was told that as long as the marble was smaller than 2.5 inches in diameter (which thankfully it is) than we should be fine.  I was asked to examine anything that passed from his body to insure that we would know when the foreign object passed.  It has now been 3 days and still no sign of the marble.  I was re-assured by Joey's pediatric GI specialist that the marble can stay in the GI tract for quite a while so as long as he's eating and drinking, he should be fine.

Now we wait and wait and wait....  I keep telling myself.  "This too shall pass!"  I can't wait until it does.